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In The Community // Our Communities

In addition to providing health care and coverage for low-income people, Kaiser Permanente’s community investments include grants, sponsorships, and volunteerism.

The East Bay service area serves cities located in West Contra Costa County and Northern Alameda County.

Grants

Our grantmaking supports projects addressing:

Prevention of Community Violence

Prevention of Obesity and Overweight

Access to Health Care services

Asthma Management

2015 Mini-Grants Program

Our mini-grants creates an opportunity to establish new community partnerships and support innovative projects that are aligned with select priority health needs and implementation strategies from our 2013 CHNA.

Eligible organizations can submit a two page Letter of Inquiry (LOI) for grant awards from $5,000 to $10,000 for the strategies outlined below by Friday, April 3rd. Please note that one LOI per organization will be accepted. Mini-grants will be targeted to address the following community health needs:

To Apply:

Step 2: Complete the Letter of Inquiry (two-page maximum) on your organization’s official letterhead and submit to this email address Public-Affairs-Community-Benefits@kp.org. Submit your Letter of Inquiry (LOI) by Friday, April 3rd, 5pm.

Kaiser Permanente East Bay Area’s Community Benefit Grants program is administered through the East Bay Area Public Affairs Department on behalf of the Richmond and Oakland Medical Centers. The East Bay Area serves cities located in West Contra Costa County and Northern Alameda County including Alameda, Berkeley, El Cerrito, El Sobrante, Emeryville, Hercules, Oakland, Pinole, Richmond and San Pablo.

Sponsorships

The Kaiser Permanente East Bay Public Affairs department will consider sponsorship requests for local community activities and civic events, under the Community Relations or Community Benefit programs.

Types of requests that will be accepted for consideration include but are not limited to:

Sponsorships will be accepted on an on-going basis through October 14, 2015 via the online application tool. Requests should be submitted a minimum of 45 days prior to the event or start of the project. Requests will be funded only for events or programs within the current year.

Conducting these assessments and making them available to the public is also important in meeting new federal requirements outlined in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. We invite you to view the Community Health Needs Assessments for each Kaiser Foundation Hospital and submit comments on our CHNA web page.